Hum for some reason I doubt Egosoft would do anything in this case. When I first joint the forum many years back when X2 was launched, I pointed out that it seems Egosoft used ship model from other media in their games. For example, the Starship trooper series. And many people defend (not sure if the staffs were among those or not) with this reason, quote: "There are only so many starship design that you're bounded to see similarity". Of course I called BS on that, but moved on, apparently now someone else think it's actually a good idea.
For example, look at this Rodger Young ship (Yamato class) from starship trooper, do you think it looks awfully similar to a certain ship in X2?
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You can also notice that the yellow ship in this first picture looks pretty similar to how the TL in X2 looks. I wonder if it was the reason why X3 completely scrap the entire models from X2.
Note: I don't accuse anyone anything here. Just want to provide another perspective for all the people getting high in this topic, what came around comes around, heh? Who know, could be just another round of coincidence when big idea clashes